Tag: bias
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The Risks of Using AI to Interpret Human Emotions
Written by Mark Purdy, John Zealley and Omaro Maseli on Harvard Business Review.
“Because of the subjective nature of emotions, emotional AI is especially prone to bias. For example, one study found that emotional analysis technology assigns more negative emotions to people of certain ethnicities than to others. Consider the ramifications in the workplace, where an algorithm consistently identifying an individual as exhibiting negative emotions might affect career progression.
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In short, if left unaddressed, conscious or unconscious emotional bias can perpetuate stereotypes and assumptions at an unprecedented scale.”
Read ‘The Risks of Using AI to Interpret Human Emotions’ on the Harvard Business Review site.
Tagged with: artificial intelligence, emotion detection, bias.
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Social Media Censorship Is Hurting Those on the Margins
Written by Bryan Menegus on Gizmodo.
“A lot of people think there’s an easy solution, and that the [solution is] for the platforms to ‘do something.’ Social media companies do not have a good history in this arena, and there are so many reasons not to trust these giant companies, why should we trust them to decide what speech is acceptable?”
Read ‘Social Media Censorship Is Hurting Those on the Margins’ on the Gizmodo site.
Tagged with: social media, censorship, bias.